For over 30 years, it’s been one of life’s great pleasures to know Rich and his writing. Dazzling, humane, wildly funny,” ...

Jane Stanton Hitchcock, 78, Dies; Crime Novelist Who Mocked High Society A daughter of privilege, she mixed social satire with murder in a series of addictive mysteries.

Nathan Silver, Who Chronicled a Vanished New York, Dies at 89 An architect, he wrote in his book “Lost New York” about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city’s ...

Jim Parkinson, the designer behind Rolling Stone's iconic logo, has died at 83 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s, his friend confirmed.

In 1969, borrowing all they could, paper industry colleagues Robert C. Williams and Brenton S. Halsey engineered a $1.5 million leveraged buyout of the money-losing Interstate Bag Co. Inc., a ...

Howard Copenhaver, a pioneer outfitter in the Bob Marshall Wilderness who shared his wealth of experiences in four popular books and was the unofficial mayor of Ovando, died Feb. 6, just a month ...

WASHINGTON — Political columnist Robert Novak, a diehard conservative, pugilistic debater and proud owner of the “Prince of Darkness” monikor, has died after a battle with brain cancer.

Widely considered East Africa’s leading novelist and one of the continent’s most articulate social critics, Ngũgĩ examined the enduring traumatic effects of colonialism on both individuals ...

Major Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., a decorated pilot and chemist, became the first black astronaut selectee in 1967. He died during a jet training accident six months later and never got to go to ...

Robert Z. Aliber, a renowned international economist and member of the University of Chicago Business School faculty, passed ...